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Let Daylight Dry Your Tears by USeeTheseHands
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
13 Feb 2026
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Before he’d left for college, Ponyboy had received countless warnings that finals week sucked. Each time, he’d nodded along, maybe laughed a little, and said he’d figure out how to get through it like everyone else.
But nothing could have prepared him for the literal hell of finals week. Absolute torture. Ponyboy was already circling the drain before he’d woken up with a sore throat on Tuesday.or
Ponyboy finally makes it home after finals week, exhausted, under the weather, and terrified of how home might have changed without him. However, it turns out home might still be waiting for him after all.
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- Part 4 of To Love and Be Loved in Return: Feveruary 2026
- Part 2 of 4 years later: Ponyboy Curtis's uni adventures
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13 Feb 2026
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I kept thinking how easy it would be for it all to disappear. I knew better than to trust good things. You got used to them and then they were gone, and you were left standing there wondering how you’d been dumb enough to believe that it was finally your turn to be happy.
When the sidewalk ran out, I probably should’ve turned back.
Instead, I kept walking, hands in my pockets, head down, with an ugly question trailing me, nestled just behind my ribs and right beside my heart.
If I went far enough, would they come find me?
I hated myself for thinking it. But still, I wondered.
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Foster-kid Ponyboy Michaels goes for a midnight walk, inadvertently sending everyone looking for him, fearing the worst.
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11 Feb 2026
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Between Drips and Gunfire by ElocinLestrange
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
12 Feb 2026
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Sodapop survives Vietnam only to discover that while he was fighting to stay alive overseas, his youngest brother was fighting for his life at home.
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07 Feb 2026
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1966 by HoneysuckleSummer
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
17 Feb 2026
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This is a companion, year-in-the-life piece to Unreliable & Kryptonite. Follow the Curtis brothers and gang as they navigate the year after the events of The Outsiders, one month at a time. Will contain flashbacks to pre-canon.
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- Part 3 of Unreliable
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06 Feb 2026
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It's been about a month since the Curtis parents passed away; Darry has filled the role of a parental figure, but is lost when Ponyboy becomes sick for the first time since the accident. Just like almost every 14 year old boy when he gets sick, he just wants his mama. Luckily, Darry knows the best person to call since he can't call their mama.
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28 Jan 2026